Transforming Unionism David Trimble and the 2005 Election
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Sprache:Englisch
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.2006
Verlag
Irish Academic PressSeitenzahl
258
Maße (L/B/H)
22.2/15.2/2 cm
Gewicht
386 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7165-3389-4
In what is their centenary year, the Ulster Unionist Party has been left reeling from the 2005 Westminster general election results. The historic party of the union has but one remaining seat in the House of Commons, and as was predicted, Northern Ireland's electorate has abandoned the centre-ground parties in favour of the extremes. The DUP and Sinn Fein now hold the key to political progress - a scenario almost inconceivable when the Belfast Agreement was signed seven long years ago. So how did the UUP become so out of touch with mainstream Unionist opinion? What could the party have done to hold its vote in the 2005 general election? Why did the British Government abandon Trimble after he had led Ulster Unionism from international isolation to being the driving force behind the Belfast Agreement? In Transforming Unionism Michael Kerr offers a view of the UUP's electoral meltdown from inside Ulster Unionist Party Head Quarters, and unravels the last days of Trimble as Ulster Unio
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